English: Heads of various Asian palm civet subspecies
Date 1939
Source The Fauna of British India, vol. 1
Author Reginald Pocock (4 March 1863 - 9 August 1947)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asianpalmcivetheads.png

The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called toddy cat, is a small member of the family Viverridae native to South and Southeast Asia. Kopi Luwak is coffee prepared using coffee beans that have been subjected to ingestion and fermentation in the gastrointestinal tract of the Asian palm civet, which is called luwak in Indonesia.